To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to
relieve one’s self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty,
trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or
part.

To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to
pay one’s debt or obligation to.

To release legally from confinement; to set at
liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.

To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.

To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to
take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to
discharge a cargo.

To relieve of an office or employment; to send away
from service; to dismiss.

To free of the missile with which anything is charged
or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult,
etc.; especially, said of firearms, – to fire off; to shoot off; also,
to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar.

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of
a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

To of something weighing upon or impeding over one,
as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to
absolve; to acquit; to clear.

To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.